Overview

Occupants

Function

This five-level home of the departments of Physics and Economics
contains offices, a research library, and 500 research and
instructional lab stations designed for study of theoretical,
high-energy, low temperature, and solid state physics. Two
astronomy observatories are located on the roof of the building,
and offer a distinctive feature to the building when coming onto
the campus from 990-Exit 1. They house telescopes used by the
Physics department and the Astronomy Club in pursuit of their
academic and research aims.

Namesake

Francis E. Fronczak (1874-1955) was a Buffalo native recognized
as one of the foremost public health authorities in the U.S. He
held both medical and law degrees from the University of Buffalo in
1897. He began his long association with the Buffalo Health
Department in 1907 and was its commissioner from 1919 to 1946.
During World War I, he gained international fame as president of a
central relief committee that brought aid to Poland. He initiated
reforms which were truly in the interest of the citizenry. Dr.
Fronczak was a member of the American Medical Association, the New
York State Medical Association, the Erie County Medical
Association, the Academy of Medicine, and the New York and New
England Railway Surgeons. Further he was a member of the prominent
Polish Physicians Association of Europe and the United States. He
was a chief examining physician of the Polish Union of America and
many other Polish associations as well as the History and Natural
Science Association of Buffalo.